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Aelfric's Catholic Homilies
The First Series: Text
Av Clemoes, Peter Clemoes
Inbunden, 1867
966 kr
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This is one of the major works of Anglo-Saxon prose, written by one of the foremost scholars of the time and the acknowledged master of prose style. The text is based on the Royal manuscript, which represents the earliest version of the text, and has corrections and annotation in Aelfric's own …
Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
804 kr
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Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this appreciation of Old English poetry, with an alternative interpretation which relates the poetry to both the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking and the structures of its society. Clemoes proposes a dynamic principle of Old …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Several unusual fields of study are extensively explored in this volume: a distinctive politico-religious cult, penitentials, inscriptions, the Sutton Hoo whetstone and medical knowledge; while treatments of more 'standard' subjects like late Anglo-Saxon law, King Alfred's Boethius and Beowulf, …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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The contents of this first volume typify the range of interests that will be covered throughout the series. The topics treated include the first two centuries of Christianity in East Anglia; geographical knowledge in King Alfred's court; the part played by Bishop 'thelwold's school at Winchester in …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Martin Biddle, Julian Brown m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
574 kr
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Among topics covered in this volume, two important authorship questions are settled; the discovery of a major Northumbrian settlement is reported; the conceptions of Old English literature which have prevailed during the last three hundred years are paraded for critical inspection and substantial …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Among the diverse topics covered in this volume is a pioneer account of a unique group of Anglo-Saxon embroideries preserved on the continent and the publication of a previously unknown charter. Themes illuminated are as varied as the status of women, early urban history, the nature of medical …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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Was Old English metre really based on stress and rhythm? Do we really know that a particular glossed manuscript of a Latin curriculum author was used in an Anglo-Saxon classroom and, if so, how? How were disputes about bookland dealt with? What happened to the last male representative of the West …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Areas of study pursued in this book include a revealing grammatical document from eighth-century Northumbria; renewed excavations at Sutton Hoo are reported; the existence of an unnoticed late Old English prose version of parts of Gregory's Dialogues is pointed out. Fresh thinking is directed to …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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This volume offers fundamental evidence and discussion illuminating a wide range of important subjects: possible influence of Cicero on Bede's attitude to rhetoric; the probability that Theodore and Hadrian brought a glossary from Italy to England; the traditional concept of the narrator in Old …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Simon Keynes, Michael Lapidge m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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This volume explores many fundamental questions regarding Anglo-Saxon history. Among those considered is the question of did the earliest English prose really divide into a Mercian tradition and a separate West Saxon one? What is the full roll-call of extant texts containing late Old English …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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This volume makes important contributions to our stock of primary manuscript evidence: it recovers parts of six previously unrecorded charters and analyses two sets of fragments, each unique in its own way - two leaves of Old Testament text written in Mercia or Canterbury early in the ninth century …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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Place-names, charters, coins and manuscripts are among the forms of evidence studied in this second volume. The topics range from the course of English settlement in the south-east to the power and influence of a leading aristocratic family in the tenth century and the possible presence of Jews in …
Anglo-Saxon England
Av Bruce Mitchell, Peter Clemoes
Häftad, 2007
653 kr
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The Anglo-Saxons' sense of the past, their colour vocabulary and their ties of kinship are among the topics considered in this third volume. Evidence for contemporary ecclesiastical architecture is extracted from an Anglo-Latin poem and evidence for the post-Conquest Anglo-Saxon emigration to …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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The materials studied in this volume extend from small pieces of evidence made to reveal Frankish influence on the beginnings of Bath Abbey to a post-Conquest gradual recognized as unique testimony to the pre-Conquest music of Christ Church, Canterbury. An arcane style of Latin poetry much in vogue …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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Manuscripts are the form of evidence most studied in this volume: the likely seventh- and eighth-century English ownership of a fifth-century copy of a Hieronymian commentary is meticulously reconstructed; an edition and full discussion of the eighth-century Anglian collection of royal genealogies …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
586 kr
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Work in this volume offers insights into the Anglo-Saxons' literature, both Latin and vernacular, their study of Latin, their documents, art and artefacts, agricultural practices, their cognizance of Roman predecessors, and later Icelandic knowledge of them. The literary contributions include a …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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What scientific observations is Bede likely to have brought to bear on the Easter controversy? What interest did the Anglo-Saxons take in precious stones and what did they know about them? Are heroic values rejected in one of Cynewulf's poems? What was Anglo-Saxon carpentry like? These are among …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
606 kr
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Through close analysis and careful weighing of evidence the authors of this volume tackle a wide range of questions in Anglo-Saxon history and culture and often arrive at opinions different from those generally accepted. Contributions are made on subjects as diverse as the Anglo-Saxon settlement, …
Anglo-Saxon England
Häftad, 2007
619 kr
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This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly. Of outstanding importance is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving manuscripts that were written or owned in Anglo-Saxon England. There are studies of particular manuscripts: three Latin poems are added to the very few …
England Before the Conquest
Studies in Primary Sources Presented to Dorothy Whitelock
Av Peter Clemoes, Kathleen Hughes
Häftad, 2010
804 kr
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Concerned with the basic materials of documents, literature, art, place-names, inscriptions, coins, buildings and archaeological finds, the twenty-two original studies that make up this 1971 text brought fresh understanding to various important topics in Anglo-Saxon scholarship. Native, …
Interactions of Thought and Language in Old English Poetry
Inbunden, 1995
2528 kr
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Peter Clemoes brings a lifetime's close study of Anglo-Saxon texts to this appreciation of Old English poetry, with an alternative interpretation which relates the poetry to both the entire Anglo-Saxon way of thinking and the structures of its society. Clemoes proposes a dynamic principle of Old …
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 12
Av Michael Lapidge, Peter Clemoes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
1341 kr
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Four very different kinds of Anglo-Saxon thinking are clarified in this volume: traditions, learned and oral, about the settlement of the country, study of foreign-language grammar, interest in exotic jewels as reflections of the glory of God, and a mainly rational attitude to medicine. Publication …
Anglo-Saxon England: Volume 13
Av Peter Clemoes, Simon Keynes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1986
1341 kr
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Among the diverse topics covered in this volume is a pioneer account of a unique group of Anglo-Saxon embroideries preserved on the continent and the publication of a previously unknown charter. Themes illuminated are as varied as the status of women, early urban history, the nature of medical …
